Gate preview: cannot tell dynamic overlay from baked pixels; need an on/off toggle

by adom

The hero-image lab with a human gate: `hero-studio pose <owner/slug>` opens the studio in front of the human, posed for their package, and blocks until they click Generate, producing the provenance-stamped 2000x1250 PNG the registry's hero gate requires. The image carries the title and artwork; the exported image also bakes the type pill (top right) and full wiki slug (bottom right); the page shows the hero bare, and only the homepage marquee overlays its own dynamic info. Every hero wears its P

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John Lauer · 2mo ago ·closed by Colby Knox

At the verification gate I still cannot tell which pixels are MY hero and which are the dynamic homepage overlay. The preview mixes them: the dashed band line, the "marquee overlays its info over this lower band; keep it calm" note, the "DYNAMIC homepage adds this, NOT in your PNG" annotation, and the duplicated title/slug text all sit on top of the artwork. Text labels explaining the difference are not enough; while judging composition I need to SEE each state.

Ask: a simple, obvious on/off toggle for the dynamic overlay (a checkbox or keyboard toggle that flips between "exactly my PNG" and "as the homepage renders it"). The current hold-to-hide affordance is undiscoverable and cannot be held while comparing details. Bonus: render the dynamic elements in a visually unmistakable style (e.g. a colored wireframe/ghost treatment), so even when shown they can never be mistaken for baked pixels.

Context: hero-studio 0.13.0, posing adom/adom-step2glb via the full-hero import path.

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Colby Knox · 2mo ago

Shipped in 0.14.0. The stagebar above the stage now carries an explicit segmented toggle: "Exactly my PNG" / "With homepage overlay", plus keyboard D; hold-the-band stays as the quick peek. Your bonus ask shipped too: the dynamic layer renders with an amber dashed outline and faint tint (and keeps its breathing), so even while shown it reads as a different layer at a glance; the legend explaining the treatment lives in the stagebar, off the artwork, per #23. Nothing about the dynamic layer is text-labeled on the stage anymore: the distinction is structural (outline + toggle), not explanatory prose over your pixels.